Sous Chef - Weekends Only

Salary: £15.65 per hour & Starter Bonus of £1,000*

Contract: Permanent, full-time (40 hours per week), working across 4 days (4 x 10-hour shifts). Shifts fall between 07:00 and 20:00. This schedule provides an excellent work-life balance, giving you more time to focus on your personal commitments while developing your career in a rewarding and supportive environment.

Welcome Bonus: £1,000* Should you be successfully hired into this role, we are pleased to be able to offer you a one-off Starter Bonus of £1000 as a thank you for deciding to join Bupa Care Services. The Starter Bonus will be paid to you in the next available pay run once you have completed four weeks’ service and will be subject to deductions for tax and NI.

Richmond Village Letcombe provides luxury retirement living with personalized care that promotes independence and honours individual choice, allowing our residents to live their best lives.

As Sous Chef, you will play a key role in supporting Head Chef in delivering exceptional culinary experiences. This is a fantastic chance for someone ready to take the next step in their career, bringing creativity, leadership, and a passion for food to a fast-paced and rewarding environment.

You’ll help us make health happen by:

• Catering to residents across the Village which comprises of the care home, catering for serviced suites, villagers who have booked a meal in the Restaurant/Spa or for meals to be taken across to their apartments or for other specific events.
• Preparing and cooking food in accordance with food hygiene regulations.
• Ensuring that all food is used within the prescribed period, with particular attention paid to perishable (high risk) goods.
• Helping to maintain a clean and hygienic working area.

Passionate about food, you’ll have experience working in a professional kitchen, ideally catering for customers with special dietary requirements. An understanding of health and safety procedures, ideally with an NVQ or equivalent City & Guilds and CIEH Level 2 Food Safety Award or Equivalent.

We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits:

• Free meal with every shift.
• 28 days holiday.
• Long Service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays and money!
• Interest-free annual travel loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets.
• Competitive pension plans and parental leave options as well as access to unique products such as our Menopause plan.
• My Bupa Extras - discounts at your favourite retailers, plus a huge range of tools, content and information to support you with your wellbeing.
• We offer a sick pay scheme to our frontline teams, as an addition to statutory sick pay, to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences.

We’re a health insurer and provider. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer.